Flight Prices doubled.
To take my family to the USA to visit my wife's family typically cost me about a grand or just over. Now one year on it looks like the same flight will cost me double. :mad::evil:
What gives, double the price in less than a year. I don't think I can go visit now. :(
What gives, double the price in less than a year. I don't think I can go visit now. :(
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I try to go to the USA during the school term time and during the winter, there are some good deals then (and you don't even need to book more than a couple of weeks in advance). If you can't do these things I'm afraid they have you over a barrel - try to get your wife's family to visit you, perhaps there are better deals in the other direction.
I was hoping to travel next week. I know I know, late booking probably is effecting the prices. I only knew recently that we could go away due to other life commitments we have. What ever happened to last minute deals? I guess they don't exist in high season with an Olympics on.
That's tantamount to false advertising by the airline. I can understand a fuel surcharge that lasts a short time if the price of fuel peaks, but a surcharge the cost of the actual ticket should be rolled up into the ticket price so you don't see "oooh, that's cheap" then run into this sort of BS right at the end of the purchasing process. It makes it harder to shop around - that's why they do it, make the prices as non-transparent as possible to make it as hard and slow as possible to compare with other airlines, in the hope people will be lazy and say "aah fsckit" and just buy without doing a comparison.
British Airways for all its faults includes all the non-optional extras in the fare price, one of the reasons why I use them if I can't get a buddy pass from one of my friends who flies for the airlines.
but well it's the same with everyone, airport taxes + fuel taxes for starters and the luggage allowance has been REALLY culled... not been away in years but continually hear my sis moan about how much it is to fly... simple answer.. holiday in the UK.
also school hols = premium prices, my friend is married to a teacher and continally moans about the cost he has to pay coz they can't go away earlier
because of the olympics they can charge what they want.. the olympics has been nothing but a headache work wise for me... so seb coe and co .. FU , some londoners got the brunt of your 6 figure wage packet inc. me. (it's really trashed how work "works" for me currently).
Just travel light. I can get enough stuff in a backpack (and easyjet don't have a weight limit for hand luggage) for a fortnight's trip. I can do Liverpool to Madrid and return, high season, for under 100 quid like that. This is remarkable value.
Generally there is no need to carry a huge suitcase even for a fortnight's holiday if you're going to a country where there are washing machines. Especially if you're going somewhere warm and you're not going to be wearing heavy clothes. I've done the USA for a fortnight with hand luggage only.
(Last trip I had a suitcase but only because I was going to RetroEuskal and had a suitcase full of various bits of electronics. It actually put my suitcase overweight so I had to dig out 4 Spectrum power supplies and stick them in my backpack. At Barcelona, they called the guardia civil on me when the X-Ray operator saw my bag go through :-) They seemed to accept my explanation that they were computer power supplies).
scottie could always visit London.. it's full of americans at the moment hehe
Well, each person gets a hand luggage allowance. Women's clothes are generally smaller and lighter, so no excuse not to fit them in a backpack. Children's clothes even more so! :-)
That's brilliant. Do you think I'd fit a unicycle in there?